Rod Begbie : Armando Iannucci - That's enough entertainment, thanks - "As grown ups, we have to let the dream die. Our completist paradise is not going to happen. The technological explosion of choice has only alerted me to those areas where I now know IÂ’m going to choose not to go." [via] #

jkottke : Apple employee and Slashdot poster "As Seen On TV" with some great posts about video on iTunes and other stuff - I posted about him a few weeks ago and now Gizmodo has outed him...how long before Apple cans this guy/gal?

Andy Baio : Platypus, Firefox extension for inline editing of Greasemonkey'd sites - edit the content and layout of websites, and save the changes as a Greasemonkey script [via] [via]

kayodeok : Firefox Extension: platypus - Platypus is a Firefox extension which lets you modify a Web page from your browser -- "What You See Is What You Get" -- and then save those changes as a Greasemonkey script so that they'll be repeated the next time you visit the page

Philippe Janvier : Platypus - "Platypus is a Firefox extension which lets you modify a Web page from your browser -- "What You See Is What You Get" -- and then save those changes as a Greasemonkey script so that they'll be repeated the next time you visit the page. Editing pages t [via] #

ricmac : mozdev.org - platypus - "Platypus is a Firefox extension which lets you modify a Web page from your browser -- "What You See Is What You Get" -- and then save those changes as a Greasemonkey script so that they'll be repeated the next time you visit the page."

jkottke : Teams are successful when they're made up of a mixture of old and new members - "You need someone new to get the creative juices going so you don't get trapped in the same ideas over and over again."

Douglas Bowman : Calq - Nifty little calculator app for both OS X *and* Windows that runs in the background, and is invoked in a fashion similar to Quicksilver. Much faster than the Calculator application, and an alternative to the Dashboard widget calculator especially for thos

kayodeok : Protecting SSH using known_hosts Hashing - If you use SSH, your ssh client stores within your home directory a list that maps the host names and IP addresses of every remote host you have connected to with each host's public key...It is also possible that worms could use known_hosts data to identi

kayodeok : How To Crack WEP Part 1: Setup & Network Recon - "In this two part series, we will give you a step by step approach to breaking a WEP key. The approach taken will be to standardize as many variables as possible so that you can concentrate on the mechanics of WEP cracking without being hindered by hardwa

Isofarro : Spam blacklist targets Telewest - Telewest Spewed. This normally happens after ISPs regularly ignore spam complaints. As I recall, Blue yonder, one of Telewest's subsidiaries received the Usenet Death Penalty because of constant spam runs. Not much change there then.

plasticbag : The Disney Muppets: why that just isn't funny (by Caitlin Moran - ex-NME superstar - of all people) - Disney bought the Muppets for $30m last year and is now relaunching them. Will the corporation get the show?s anarchic humour?

deusx : VG Cats - 152 - Cats in the Cragle - "I'm not your mother. Does anyone understand this thing? Please tell it I'm not its mother. I don't speak 'crazy head sucker' language. How did you even get enrolled here?"

kayodeok : Helix LiveCD - Helix is a customized distribution of the Knoppix Live Linux CD. Helix focuses on Incident Response & Forensics tools. It is meant to be used by individuals who have a sound understanding of Incident Response and Forensic techniques

kayodeok : Auditor LiveCD - In addition to the approx. 300 tools, the Auditor security collection contains further background information regarding the standard configuration and passwords, as well as word lists from many different areas and languages with approx. 64 million entries

jkottke : Design and the art of bullshitting - In my experience, a designer's job entails coming up with a solution that works (which takes 20% of the time and energy) and then selling it to the client (which takes the remaining 80% of the time/energy, sometimes more).

plasticbag : On (Design) Bullshit - An interesting piece on the rationalisation for design decisions that people make on fundamentally aesthetic grounds - I think it underestimates the value of the expert in knowing what will work but not being able to express it, but otherwise it's pretty interesting and funny / relevant.

jkottke : Internal NY Times report recommends the creation of a NY Times blog

plasticbag : A New York Times' internal study suggests starting a weblog to better connect with their audience - It's not the dumbest idea in the world - more interesting was the stuff about putting supporting material onto the internet...

jkottke : Gladwell reviews Everything Bad is Good for You for the New Yorker

plasticbag : Malcolm Gladwell on Steven Johnson on pop culture and its capacity to make us more intelligent... - "At the elementary-school level, homework seems to be of marginal or no academic value. Its effect on discipline and personal responsibility is unproved... They could be playing a video game, and giving their minds a rigorous workout."

ricmac : SiliconBeat: DoCoMo finds its way to San Jose - "DoCoMo Capital, a venture fund to be based in San Jose, and to invest mainly in U.S venture companies that develop "advanced mobile communication technologies.""

ricmac : Boing Boing: BBC's RSS: Why do we need a license to aggregate, period? - Interesting questions... quote: "Should we pander to delusions about RSS being for something other than aggregating and republishing?"

ricmac : Kottke uses Ajax on his homepage and re-architects his archives - Some really neat things to experiment with in this post - and Jason says it's easy to implement if you're using MT, Wordpress etc.

kayodeok : PHP: Highlighting source in a semantic way - "Forget about AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps or highlight_string(). This is way better. Not only because it validates under a strict doctype, but it's semantic fluff and completely stylable with CSS"

ricmac : Ross Mayfield: Perma-work - This is relevant to me of course, as a kiwi. quote: "Perma-work sets in when organizations are designed without taking into account the opportunities to coordinate asynchronously and consider latitudinal windows."

kayodeok : Mouseover DOM Inspector - The Mouseover DOM Inspector, or MODI for short, is a favelet (also known as a bookmarklet) that allows you to view and manipulate the DOM of a web page simply by mousing around the document

Philippe Janvier : Neutrino XML - "A Neutrino feed is a collection of pointers to other syndication feeds - say, a blog, Flickr and Del.icio.us - all of which belong to one individual". Something between OPML, FOAF, Attention.xml and vCard. [via] #

ricmac : Gawker Bucks vs Journalists Bucks --> concludes that bloggers underpaid - "Bloggers are paid $2500 a month plus bonuses, based on the site's performance. Expectation seems to be that each site will make around $75,000 a year (that would come out to $6250 per month)."